State Ex Rel. Sandaker v. Olson

The petitioner seeks to mandamus the state auditing board to approve and allow his vouchers for salary as assistant dairy commissioner during the months of July to December, 1933, inclusive, and the state auditor to issue warrants in payment of the same. The vouchers were disapproved and warrants denied on the ground that there is no legislative appropriation made to pay the salary; that the legislature, by chapter 16 of the Session Laws of 1933, made an ap propriation for salary for the biennium but this item was vetoed by the governor. The district court denied the writ and petitioner…